Senior Business Analyst

Luxoft is looking for a Business / Financial Analyst(s) who would be working with our Customer - one of the world's largest investment management companies. Based in Southern California, our client manages close to $2 trillion in assets and is working with Luxoft in a full-scale upgrade of their technology. We are looking for talented and ambitious people to work on the first engagement in the client's offices near Los Angeles, California. It's a high potential engagement with opportunity to expand our reach into a large share of their new and existing business.

Business Analyst would be working in a complex integration project that we've undertaken for the client's Fixed Income investment group. A specific work stream that is currently under way is focused on the development of an adapter for real-time integration of BlackRock's Aladdin to CRD Compliance solution as well as other downstream systems.

Responsibilities:

• Discuss, understand and document project stakeholder business requirements to direct software and business process development

• Write business requirement documents

• Collaborate with the development team to design and present the proposition to the stakeholders/users

• Work with the team during the development phase to ensure business requirements are met and that requirements and specification documents are kept up to date

• Proactively manage changes to requirements to ensure all parties have a full understanding of the required changes and the system/process/project implications

• Work with the development team to test the software and business processes developed to ensure they satisfy the business requirements, and meet the design/specification

Mandatory Skills Description:

• SQL knowledge

• Knowledge of the relational databases (Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server etc.)

• Creation of physical and logical data models

• Understanding of integration patterns (REST API, ETL, Topics etc.)

• Knowledge of JSON, XML formats

• Knowledge of UML

• Experience with Fixed Income domain

• Advanced spoken and written English

• Good team communication skills, confident in dealing with project stakeholders

• Highly developed written and oral communication skills

• Superior analytical thinking

• Excellent organizational, administration and time management skills

• Familiarity with financial markets, trading and investment management

• Understanding of testing methodology

• Good understanding of Agile SDLC's

• Be quick learner and have a desire to learn the domain and its business processes